The International Rugby Experience had made the 52 project shorlist from the 187 entries. There is a public choice vote which you can go to from this link and make your vote! https://www.riai.ie/public-choice-award-poll
Niall McLaughlin was invited to be one of the six members of the RIBA Honours Committee Panel, a group selected to choose the winner of the Royal Gold Medal. The other members of the panel were architects Peter Clegg, Yvonne Farrell, Professor Adrian Forty, and Sarah Wigglesworth. The panel has nominated the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor as the 2013 recipient of the award.